While current public policies in Columbia encourage palm tree plantations, thereby destroying the Pacific and the Bajo Atrato biodiversity, scientifics and ecologist movements around the world are questioning the positive effects of palm oil and its use as a biocombustible.
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MARCH 15, 2007: STOP THE REPRESSION NOW! 11th INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY Thursday March 15 5 PM metro Snowdon ***** Like the past eleven years, the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality (COBP, in its French acronym) is calling for participation in the International Day against Police Brutality held in the city of Montreal, in addition to holding local activities in your own regions. In 2006, demonstrations were held in Montréal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver, as well as several cities in Mexico.
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Join the “Block the Empire! Anti-Imperialist Contingent” Part of a worldwide day of action against the occupation of Iraq. BUSH OUT OF BAGHDAD! CANADA OUT OF KANDAHAR! SATURDAY, MARCH 17 at NOON Norman Bethune Park Guy and de Maisonneuve (metro Guy-Concordia)
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The Association for Promoting Social Alternatives MINGA has notified the national and international public of new crimes and abuses of the police and military forces against the citizens of the Catatumbo region in Colombia. The facts:
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from ashes to hope, from death to life. 15th – 23rd February, 2007 10 years of destruction 10 years working towards dignity 10 years pursuing the dignity of the self and the future of humanity CONVOCAN - YOU ARE INVITED BY- CONVOQUENT- CONVOCA: Asociación de familiares de las Víctimas de Riosucio CLAMORES Asociación de cabildos Cuna, Embara, Katio, ACIKEK Resguardo Indígena Jooin Pubuur - Cacarica Familias de los Consejos Comunitarios del Cacarica de Autodeterminación, Vida, Dignidad del Cacarica-CAVIDA-. Consejo Comunitario del Curvaradó Consejo Comunitario d
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Curvaradó – Jiguamiandó Renewal of sowing and extraction of African Palm “We will enter El Tesoro (HZ) and El Limón (BZ) where there are many people reclaiming their land” said an ex-paramilitary. SUMMARY
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The Western world, and in particular the countries of the North, gave in to addiction to fossil fuels. This path has led to something that today nobody can doubt: climate change. Many solutions have been put forth to face it, but most of them let humanity’s race towards suicide continue as vigorously as before. Biofuel mega-projects are some of the proposals to solve the problem. However, have those who submitted them as an alternative measured the consequences their creation could have on important ecosystems, peoples and culture?
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Members of the PASC list Greetings to all! Here is a short newsletter describing the PASC activities in this beginning of the year 2007. To all people interested in international accompaniment in Colombia: the training session will take place from January to May 2007. Nevertheless, it is possible to join even if it has already started. Just fill in the form at this address: http://www.pasc.ca/spip.php?article3 and contact us at: info@pasc.ca
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Up a flight of stairs, behind double-enforced bulletproof glass and a large, silent bodyguard sits the office of Francisco Ramírez, a mining-policy researcher and president of Sintraminercol, Colombia’s state mineworkers’ union. Mining policy really isn’t sexy stuff and researching it usually isn’t a dangerous occupation, but some of Mr. Ramírez’s conclusions can mean life or death, both literally and figuratively. “Once they tried to kill me right here in this office,” said the researcher, who has survived seven assassination attempts.
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